The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics (57 page)

    
1979–1989

    
Soviet War in Afghanistan
35
–
6
,
77
–
9
,
122
–
6
,
183

    
1985

    
meetings with Saudi Arabian diplomats
42

    
1988

    
protests in Xinjiang against publication of
The White House in the Distance
71

    
Rajiv Gandhi makes state visit
48

    
1989

    
Tiananmen Square protests
48
,
149

    
1990

    
Baren uprising
74
,
75

    
1991

    
United States imposes sanctions
41

    
1992

    
Urumqi bombings
74

    
United States agrees to sell F-16 warplanes to Taiwan
41
,
150

    
1993

    
Xinjiang bombings
74

    
closing of embassy in Kabul after rocket attacks
118
,
126

    
1995–1996

    
Taiwan Strait Crisis
40
,
48

    
1996

    
founding of Shanghai Five, later Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
76

    
Jiang Zemin makes state visit to India and Pakistan
48
–
9

    
Strike Hard campaigns in Xinjiang
70
,
72
,
75
,
76

    
1997

    
Urumqi bombings
74
,
81

    
1998

    
Asian financial crisis
168

    
United States-China Joint Statement On South Asia
56

    
1999

    
Kargil War
57
–
9
,
166

    
2000

    
CICIR delegation meets with Taliban in Afghanistan
128
,
177

    
Lu Shulin meets with Taliban in Afghanistan
128
–
9

    
2001–2002

    
Twin Peaks Crisis
60
,
150

    
2001–2014

    
Afghanistan War
130
–
43
,
151
–
2
,
157
–
62
,
163

    
2002

    
reopening of embassy in Kabul
118

    
2003

    
Cessna 402B plane crash in Arabian Sea
117
–
19

    
2004

    
Chinese engineers killed in Gwadar bus bombing
102
,
137

    
killing of Chinese workers in Kunduz, Afghanistan
135

    
kidnapping of Sinohydro engineers in South Waziristan
109
–
11
,
113

    
2005

    
Treaty of Good Neighbourliness and Friendly Cooperation
30

    
2006

    
Pervez Musharraf makes state visit
62

    
Sino-Pakistani joint counterterrorism exercises in Abbottabad
155

    
2007

    
Lal Masjid hostage crisis and siege
ix
–
x
,
xii
–
xvi
,
88
,
89
,
111
,
113
,
115
,
185

    
Chinese workers killed in Peshawar
xv
,
111

    
China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement
98

    
2008

    
China Southern Airlines bomb scare
84
–
5

    
Lhasa riots
87

    
Beijing Summer Olympic Games
xiii
,
69
,
84
–
5
,
90
,
146

    
Asif Ali Zardari makes state visit, kidnapping of ZTE engineers in Swat Valley
112
–
14
,
115
,
165
,
173

    
NSG meeting in Vienna
49
–
52

    
Mumbai attacks
60
–
1
,
150
,
154

    
2009

    
IDCPC meeting with Jamaat-e-Islami
68

    
Pakistan hands over nine Uighur militants to China
147

    
Urumqi riots
87
,
152

    
2010

    
United States arms sale to Taiwan
152

    
IDCPC meeting with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam
67
–
8
,
88

    
NSG plenary in Christchurch, New Zealand
63

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Kabul
158

    
2011

    
Kashgar attacks
85
–
6

    
Imran Khan visits Beijing
167

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Istanbul
142
,
160

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn
142
,
160

    
China National Petroleum Corporation wins Afghan oil contract
139

    
2012

    
Ashfaq Kayani makes visit
175
–
6

    
killing of Hua Jiang in Peshawar
115
,
185

    
Zhou Yongkang visits Kabul
142
–
3
,
160

    
leadership transition
168
,
176

    
economic slowdown
168
–
9

    
2013

    
PLA incursion in Ladakh
169

    
Chinese engineers targeted in Karachi bomb attack
171

    
Li Keqiang visits India and Pakistan
169
–
71

    
Nanga Parbat tourist shootings
172
–
3

    
Nawaz Sharif makes visit
165
,
173
–
4

    
Ashfaq Kayani makes visit
176

    
Tiananmen Square attack
176
–
7

    
groundbreaking ceremony for new project at Karachi Nuclear Power Complex
174
–
5

    
2014

    
Kunming attack
177

    
Urumqi attack
177

China, Republic of
20
,
21
,
41
,
68
,
103
,
131

China and Pakistan: Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale
185

China Harbour Engineering Company
100

China Kingho Group
108

China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC)
108
,
117
,
118
–
21
,
132
,
135
,
137
–
9
,
141

China Mobile
108
,
109

China National Nuclear Corporation
63
,
175

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
139
–
41
,
143

China Overseas Port Holdings Company
101

China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation
107

China Railway Shisiju Group
132
,
136

China Road and Bridge Corporation
99
,
101

China Shipbuilding and Trading Company
108

China Three Gorges Corporation
108

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
103
,
171
,
173
,
178

China-Pakistan Strategic Cooperation: Indian Perspectives
186

Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
128
,
177

Chittagong, Bangladesh
170

Christchurch, New Zealand
63

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
11
,
17
,
22
,
35
,
37
–
8
,
82
,
124
,
125
,
156

Clifton, Karachi
171

Clinton, Hillary Rodham
152
,
158
,
162
–
3

Clinton, William Jefferson ‘Bill’
54
,
56
,
59

coal
69

Cohen, Stephen
187

Cold Start doctrine
45
–
6

Cold War
22
,
41
,
53
,
122
,
183

Cole
, USS
118

Coll, Steve
124

Colonel Imam (Sultan Amir Tarar)
89

Communist Party of China (CPC)
67
–
8
,
71
,
168
Communist Youth League
168
International Department of the Chinese Communist Party (IDCPC)
67
–
8
,
88

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
50

Corera, Gordon
Shopping For Bombs
187

Council on Foreign Relations
187

Cowen, Brian
50

cruise missiles
41

Cuba
183
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
22

Cultural Revolution
70
,
93
–
4
,
95
,
107

Dalai Lama
21

Dares Salaam, Tanzania
44
,
127

Davis, Raymond
156

Dawn
16

Defense Department (United States)
125

Defense Intelligence Agency
39

Delhi, India
170
,
184

Deng Xiaoping
27
,
35
,
38
,
64
,
70
,
74
,
77
,
97
,
124
,
145
,
149

Deobandi movement
67

Department of Energy (United States)
28

Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
88
,
110

Development Advisory Service (Harvard)
95

DH-
10
cruise missiles
41

Dhaka, Bangladesh
10
,
15

Djibouti
104

Dong
Feng (CSS-2) missiles
42

Dongfeng Agricultural Machinery Company
129

Dostum, Rashid
140
–
1

Dragon Mart, Dubai
68
–
9

drone strikes
145
–
7

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
68
–
9
,
112
,
119
,
165

Dulles Airport, Washington D.C.
28

Durrani Associates
94

Dushanbe, Tajikistan
76

East China Sea
178

East Pakistan
10
–
16
,
17
,
19
,
77

East Turkistan Democratic Islamic Party
74

East Turkistan Information Centre
73

East
Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
68
–
9
,
74
,
75
,
76
,
81
,
82
–
6
,
88
,
89
–
91
,
114
,
127
,
133
,
146
–
8
,
177

East Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP)
74
–
5

East Turkistan National Unity Alliance
74

East Turkistan Republic
73

East Wind missiles
see
Dong Feng missiles

Eastern Turkistan People’s Revolutionary Party
73

Eating Grass: the Making of the Pakistani Bomb
187

Egypt
105
,
124
,
149